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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 06:35 AM Jan 2018

Mueller Had No Interest In Bannon Until Book



https://politicalwire.com/2018/01/25/mueller-no-interest-bannon-book/

Mueller Had No Interest In Bannon Until Book
January 25, 2018 at 6:58 pm EST
By Taegan Goddard


A lawyer close to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation told the Daily Beast that before the release of Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury, the special counsel’s team indicated “zero interest” in questioning President Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen Bannon for their Russia probe.

Bannon himself told Wolff that he didn’t expect to hear from Mueller: “I know no Russians, I don’t know nothin’ about nothin. I’m not being a witness. I’m not hiring a lawyer.”

He’s now expected to talk with the special counsel’s team by the end of the month.
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Cha

(297,318 posts)
1. So Mueller read Fire and Fury..
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:03 AM
Jan 2018

Turns out bannon knows a thing or two about trump and the Russians.

Thanks Michael Wolffe

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
2. Isn't THAT what tRump
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:04 AM
Jan 2018

claims, too? Being in the WH in close proximity to Agent Orange, Bannon HAD to hear enough to make his testimony interesting to Mueller. Bannon was too involved to be able to claim innocence. Where was he when tRump was in the Oval office with the two high ranking Russians?

getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)
6. agree, doesn't pass the smell test
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:52 AM
Jan 2018

He (muehler) would at least want to ask every senior staffer a list of specific questions. Bannon was in every meeting, on air force one frequently, and was managing initiatives.

He would have been important to interview because he was a peer to the chief of staff, and he was around trump for a long time prior to the election.

This story sounds like a bannon plant. See, I have done nothing wrong, so my resume is clean for future office!

bucolic_frolic

(43,182 posts)
4. Which means the investigation
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:15 AM
Jan 2018

is not a political witch hunt

It's just following the trail of facts where ever they lead

BumRushDaShow

(129,096 posts)
5. I'm sure Mueller's staff would have interviewed him regardless of the book
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:28 AM
Jan 2018

however the book establishes some additional lines of questioning with them knowing that "it was only a book" and could have skewed his perspective and commentary.

 

zaj

(3,433 posts)
8. Mueller is doing obstruction first...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:15 AM
Jan 2018

Bannon is more interesting (to me) for his role with Cambridge analytica. That's part 2 of the process.

This according to Seth Abraham on Twitter.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
9. IMO his international connections go back well before his reported 'IGE' wow exploits.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:39 AM
Jan 2018

about 10 yrs before the wow game even came out. Way back in the days when our game servers connected to Russia, Koreas, China, Formosa (RIP). back in the days when a game economy generated more real cash than some small countries.

always wondered how he managed to pass security clearances to spend much time alone with republicans president. how Bannon dropped from the sky into middle! of trumps personal life. a mole? /shrug, wouldn't be the first time FBI/CIA have used people as moles

Maeve

(42,282 posts)
10. Not sure I trust that this is true
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:46 AM
Jan 2018

I suspect that some of the stories we get about Mueller are a form of dis-information meant for one major audience and intended to make that person crazier and therefore more likely to say (or tweet) something stupid and incriminating. Another turn of the screw...

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